The Best American Magazine Writing 2015

This year's Best American Magazine Writing features articles on politics, culture, sports, sex, race, celebrity, and more. Selections include Ta-Nehisi Coates's intensely debated "The Case For Reparations" ) and Monica Lewinsky's reflections on the public-humiliation complex and how the rules of the game have (and have not) changed ( ). Amanda Hess recounts her chilling encounter with Internet sexual harassment ( ) and John Jeremiah Sullivan shares his investigation into one of American music's greatest mysteries ( ). The anthology also presents Rebecca Traister's acerbic musings on gender politics ( ) and Jerry Saltz's fearless art criticism ( ). James Verini reconstructs an eccentric love affair against the slow deterioration of Afghanistan in the twentieth century ( ); Roger Angell offers affecting yet humorous reflections on life at ninety-three ( ); Tiffany Stanley recounts her poignant experience caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's ( ); and Jonathan Van Meter takes an entertaining look at fashion's obsession with being a social-media somebody ( ). Brian Phillips describes his surreal adventures in the world of Japanese ritual and culture ( ), and Emily Yoffe reveals the unforeseen casualties in the effort to address the college rape crisis ( ). The collection concludes with a work of fiction by Donald Antrim, exploring the geography of loss. (